The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-08-20
BrOadhrims New york Letter.
,eclal 10 the Cannon ADVOCATE.

" bINU anu Aht ltihihioetCh COaAata'eeecAaf
eliminated last week In the Emigration
Commission being badly knocked out.
They are set of pompous, ignorant block
heads, who supposed that they were placed
in exclusive charge of the United States,
armed with full powers to say who should
land and who should not land upon our
shores, and they seemed to think that their
final decision was above all law. Matters
in Castle Garden have been carried on with
a very high hand for several years past, and
nobody has questioned their claims to pow
er. The arbitrary attempt to send back to
Norway a couple of strong healthy women
who had money enough to pay their way, |
and whose friends were willing to give am
pie bonds that they should never become a
public charge, called forth bitter criticism
from the World Commissioner Stephen
son, hard-headed old fossil, forbade the
admission of the World reporter into Castle
Garden. Then the World went Tor the
entire Commission red-handed, and for a
few weeks there was some very lively read
ing. The Secretary of the Treasury was
appealed to, and he gave the Commission
to understand that they were exceeding
their powers; but, as / said, the stupid
Commissioners supposed themselves above
the Secretary of the Treasury. Indeed they
were not sure that theY were not beyond
the reach of the Courts. They have re-
ceived very rude awakening, and the re-
suit was that the two women whom they
had determined TO send back, were allowed
to proceed on their journey by order of the
| Courts, and one of them was snuggled out
of town in the night TO avoid prospective
action for damages for false imprisonment
After a desperate struggle of three years,
during which he has sunk every dollar he
had in the world, John Swinton's Labor
paper goes to the wall. Few better news
paper men in New York than John Swim
ton; large Drained, understanding men and
things, ripe scholar, thoroughly read in
every branch of literature, honest beyond
all question, lover of his kind, tireless
worker, never weighing principle against
pelf, never self-seeking, not scheming for
office or money, and yet in his old age a
financial ruin. Not that John Swinton is
rare not to be always in demand. But why
has he failed, you ask? Horace Greeley
gave the answer to that question a quarter
of century ago. ''No man was ever quail
fed to edit and publish daily paper"
Greeley was dead failure till he met Nc
Elrath, and Dana of the Sun would have
gone into bankruptcy years ago if 1t had
not been for the judicious management of
Mr.. England. At Frank Leslie's death his
, paper was thousands of dollars in debt and
Mr.. England was appointed receiver by the
Court. So well did he administer to his
: trust that all the debts were paid dollar for
dollar, and the property restored to Mrs.
: Leslie without any incumbrance which
/ could not be easily paid.
4 John Swinton started in on his labor
e crusade long before Henry George was
3 heard of. Before the advent of the new
? prophet of Anti-poverty, John Swinton
was the oracle of the working men; but
= with the rise of Henry George, who re-
L
S John Swinton, Mr.. Swinton's star begar
= to wane, and while Henry Georges Stan
e ddrd is making him rich and is bought b,
/ his Anti-poverty converts at ten cents
y copy, John Swinton's paper sinks in ruin
: and after this week will be heard of as la
Dor factor no more.
We are now trying to suppress the Irisl
IS wake by due process of law. but as ever,
one OF the walkers has vote next election
e we are not having very easy time of 1t
IS Dphtheria has prevailed extensively in th
tenement houses, and every little angel ha,
Is to have a wake. The rooms were file
e with people for two or three nights preced
N ing the funeral, then all the children in tn
neighborhood had to come in and take
III look, and as natural consequence bushes
4 was lively among the undertakers and the
'e gave their most unqualified approval to tn
a. wake. The family that had the bigges
&c wake and the biggest funeral was locke
n upon as the biggest family in the neighbol
Is hood Then came the cost of carriages
e every carriage cost five dollars-and tn
T. loss of at least half days work for all tn
mourners. 1t is no uncommon sight to Sc
twenty or thirty carriages at funeral of
d. child. The expenses of the wake and fur
he eral will sometimes involve family
N debt for months and years. 1t is iInHai
re that the clergy and the city authorities hay
III endeayored to stop this barbarous custom
ty the wake still goes on no matter how daI
ne gerous the disease of which the subjeC
~ died. Last week child died of a mo.
e malignant form of diphtheiia and prepar;
IL tions were made for grand wake. tn
e- city authorities were notified and when II
'n health officer called on the father and tol
IN him of the terrible risk he was exposin
on himself and his family and friends, his r.
lc- ply was that he did not care -, he wa
he going to have wake anyway. Finding
impossible to reason with the man the O
iicer forbade the wake, when the faith,
~ seized the officer and tried to throw hi
- down stairs. II required four stout polio
man TO arrest the maniac, and when Il
>" dead child was taken out by the authoritl
''' there was nearly riot in the neighborhoo
" That such a barbarOus custom should O
:. tain foothold here is disgraeeful TO OF
MS civilization
!. - While on the subject of funerals won
~ remark en- pdssdnt that one of the mo
~ agreeable and delightful receptions of Il
season was the Undertakers' Ball. TT
" mottos in evergreen about the hall we
not those meaningless nothings which a
so common on such occasions, but they III
ers point and taste for which these gentlem,
TO in black are proverbial. just look at II
TO From GRAVE to Gay" "Our Abse
nal Friends: they are EMBALMED In our Mel
zoe ofles." There is delicacy of touch abO